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It has been a month since Mariyappan Thangavelu bagged a historic gold in the men’s high jump at the Paralympic Games at Rio. The celebrations, though, haven’t subsided for the champion Athlete hailing from a small village in Salem district.<\/p>\nIt has been a month since Mariyappan Thangavelu bagged a historic gold in the men’s high jump at the Paralympic Games at Rio. The celebrations, though, haven’t subsided for the champion Athlete hailing from a small village in Salem district.<\/p>\n
He has now shot for Comedy Nighs with Kapil in Mumbai for Sony TV and Vijay TV’s Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi in Chennai.<\/p>\n
Felicitations will continue for another fortnight as he travels to Hyderabad and New Delhi, among other places, before resuming training in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t slept properly since winning the gold as the phone keeps ringing. There were times when I was overwhelmed” Mariyappan told after being Felicitated by Velammal Vidyalaya School in Chennai.<\/p>\n
He also said he has enough money now to take care of his old mother and build a new house in Chennai.<\/p>\n
Mariyappan gave full credit to Satyanarayana, his coach, for his success at the highest level. Answering questions from kids, Mariyappan said though he won medals at the National – level earlier, it was only during his second year of college that he was noticed.<\/p>\n
“In my second year, Satyanarayana saw my talent, spoke to my family,college staffs and spent his own money for training and tournaments abroad. I also want to thank Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu for their help,” he said.<\/p>\n
He is now focusing on World Championship in London next year and one will be sure he will do well over there and make us proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been a month since Mariyappan Thangavelu bagged a historic gold in the men’s high jump at the Paralympic Games at Rio. The celebrations, though, haven’t subsided for the champion Athlete hailing from a small village in Salem district.<\/p>\n
He has now shot for Comedy Nighs with Kapil in Mumbai for Sony TV and Vijay TV’s Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[11276,466,17803,2232,17802],"class_list":["post-29288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mariyappan-thangavelu","tag-paralympic-games","tag-rio-paralympics"],"yoast_head":"\n